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right, as to not "hinder" myself with strict Gopher/Gemini protocols (and really, I DO see them as an arbitrary "c***block" of content accessibility) yet still use the page>tree method of posting, I have a site (as of now unnamed, and remaining unnamed in any public sphere) where I am writing posts as .txt files, and just hosting it from a "front" page, with nothing much else on Index.html other than a link to index.txt, where I have (yes, in plaintext) the URLs of pages on the site (/about.txt, /meta.txt, etc). None links, so the curious and creepy must copy/paste (or type) the continuation of the URL into their browser, but one can (one-by-one) browse the site for different things. Hell, it's MORE of a chore than Gopher, when one thinks of it - but only for the "navigator"/visitor, not for those whom I want to share a singular link to. And no mention of the rest of the site per-page, so using a URL shortener would put the (shortened) URL in the person's browser, but the page would not indicate WHERE it came from, who wrote it, what the "main" page was/is for that site.

Suffice, one can pull a string or two and just see the "source" of the shortened URL in one form or another, but even that can be circumvented with some privacy-centric/anaonymous-first URL shortener of some type.

Point being, if I want to share a thing with someone, I can without (in the back of my mind) thinking they will keep turning up, expecting/wanting more (and MORE and MORE) posts, and e-mailing me for RSS feed info, and word-mincing the entries to shit, like some energy drink enamored editor of idiocy.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I did something that I think was similar for a while, and really loved how it looked/worked. But for me there's no look or way of organizing or being gaudy or minimalist that compensates for my needing to know my mind's jigglings converted to words hung out to be potentially espied lead to similar jigglings in others', so I gave up on it.

I don't need agreement/consensus, just a recurring sense of being briefly on the same conceptual page as another or others, no matter how briefly. Sans that, posts quickly seem like stray plastic grocery bags quivering tattered ugly in trees, bushes, and corners where wind gusts conjure miniature cyclonic leaf & co. displays....